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Adath Israel Congregation, Toronto Holy Blossom Temple Kiever Synagogue, Toronto A list of synagogues in the Greater Toronto Area , a region with a large Jewish population. Most are located along Bathurst Street in Toronto, North York and Thornhill , but some are located in areas of newer Jewish immigrants.
The Toronto Hebrew Congregation was formed in 1849 by members from Germany (including Bavaria and Alsace), Bohemia, Great Britain, the United States, Russia, Galicia, and Lithuania. The Congregation conducted services in members' homes and founded the Pape Avenue Cemetery, Toronto's first Jewish cemetery. The congregation was known as the ...
Birnbaum was born in Vienna into an Eastern European Jewish family with roots in Austrian Galicia and Hungary. [3] His father, Menachem Mendel Birnbaum, a merchant, hailed from Ropshitz, Galicia (now Poland), and his mother, Miriam Birnbaum (née Seelenfreund), who was born in Carpathian Rus (now Ukraine), of a family with illustrious rabbinic lineage, had moved as a child to Tarnow, Galicia ...
Nathan Birnbaum in the 1910s, the main thinker and activist behind Diaspora Nationalism.. Golus nationalism (Yiddish: גלות נאַציאָנאַליזם Golus natsionalizm after golus, Hebrew: לאומיות גולוס, romanized: Gālūṯ leumiyút), or diaspora nationalism, is a national movement of the Jewish people that argues for furthering Jewish national and cultural life in centers ...
[ae] Birnbaum, though he militated against a latent trend in Jewish nationalism that "craved to answer antisemitic nationalist chauvinism in kind", still thought race was the foundation of nationality, [57] Jabotinsky wrote that Jewish national integrity relies on "racial purity", [52] [af] that "(t)he feeling of national self-identity is ...
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The Beach Hebrew Institute was founded in 1919 by Jewish residents in The Beaches neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, which was then a largely Anglo-Saxon area in the east part of Toronto far removed from the Jewish neighbourhoods further to the west in The Ward and around Spadina Avenue. [1]
Toronto's Jewish population migrated north after World War Two, resulting in the synagogue remaining largely closed except for holidays and special events since the 1950s. Nevertheless, it has a congregation of 80 full-time and 300 associate members [1] most of whom grew up in the area or are descended from the founding members. [4]